Jermaine Jenas sees no problem with Jose Mourinho’s Instagram, disagrees with Martin Keown

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Former Tottenham midfielder and now pundit, Jermaine Jenas, has backed Jose Mourinho following his controversial Instagram post following the loss in Antwerp.

Mourinho used his social media account to post a mood looking picture of himself on the team bus, insisting his players would need to be in for training the following morning.

It was a move which drew the ire of former Arsenal defender and now pundit himself, Martin Keown, who criticised the action from Mourinho.

But Jenas, who was speaking on BBC R5 Live this week, stood behind Mourinho and called on people to stop wanting it all ways.

“I don’t know what you want. Me, personally, I think that, for a good few years now, we have been talking about Mourinho being miserable.

“I don’t know if I am just seeing the humour in the whole thing or not, but the reality is that there is a personality there and he is not going missing. What would you prefer? For example, Pep Guardiola gives you nothing really, does he? Pep is pretty moody when it comes to his interviews. He is borderline rude at times.”

Jenas’ stance is a different opinion to that of Keown, who labelled Mourinho ‘childish’ in his comments.

It’s the modern world, Mourinho is tongue in cheek half the time – TBR View

Too much has been made of this to be honest. Social media is just part of the modern world and Mourinho is simply joining in with things as a lot of his players do.

His players probably also know that he doesn’t mean anything malicious in his post. The truth is he’s probably already told them he’s going to do it in the dressing room.

Jenas is right here, move on and simply take it with a pinch of salt.